Young Leon Hubbard was arrogant and near psychotic. So when he was killed on a South Philadelphia construction site, everyone who knew him wanted to bury the bad news with the body. All, that is, except two--Leon's mother and the local columnist for the common man. Now back in print, God's Pocket is the powerful first novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout.
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This review is from: God's Pocket (Paperback)
I've read a lot of books in the line of city/street type fiction and Dexter has it down cold on the likes of Richard Price and even Pellecanos. It's a very lived in book and a very funny book and every single character is eerily believable. I can't understand why this book doesn't have more reviews. Hopefully readers just assume it speaks for itself, since it's as close as you can come to a classic. Wish he'd left the newspaper guy out though. The book is stronger than rockets without him.
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This review is from: God's Pocket (Paperback)
I wrote this last year for Forgotton Books at Pattinase. GP is back in print; there is a God.
GOD'S POCKET, like all Pete Dexter's novels, ends sans sunshine. Should Pete ever find a ray at the end, his sales would increase tenfold. I would read them three times instead of twice. I would still marvel at the sentences, at the characterizations, at the overwhelming sense of place, but I wouldn't feel like my mom forgot my birthday for the third year in a row. Rereading Dennis Lehane's Mystic River, I have to believe his spectacular opening twenty years later pays homage to God's Pocket. Pete was living in South Philadelphia at the time and set the novel where he was, the same way I do mine. No, set is the wrong word, that's what I do. Drenched or soaked or maybe swallowed does God's Pocket justice; so lights-out, totally there that I knew this section of South Philadelphia in thirty pages like I know Chicago after fifty years. For my money, these two novels are the Old and New Testament if you want to read or write place as a character, urban America without the apologies or the fashion statements. Style? The seamlessness of Elmore Leonard at his best, but with the bite of the early masters, the truth between the lines, slowly closing the doors, dimming the lights, walking you down an alley until you're naked and alone. If they ever find a vaccine for grinding, inevitable hopelessness, it will have been extracted from Pete's dead-on renditions. Charlie Newton Author: CALUMET CITY
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Its a must read page-flipper. It arrived yesterday and I finished it today. I've read most of Dexter's books and this is the pick of the litter.
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